Completing the Life-Value Onto-Axiology Program
From Life-Ground to Living CoherenceBy Dr. Bichara Sahely
Length1h 9m
About this audiobook
Can Life-Value Onto-Axiology become a practical, testable framework for guiding health care, education, economics, and governance? Building on John McMurtry’s life-value philosophy, Bichara Sahely develops the missing operational middle: a dynamic account of need, satisfiers, provision, assimilation, regulation, capacity, regenerative margin, and viability through time.
This Listener’s Edition translates the white paper’s figures, tables, and mathematical scaffold into clear spoken narration. It explores the fact–value bridge, life capital, civil commons, institutional accountability, nested consequences, falsifiable hypotheses, and safeguards against reductionism, metric gaming, and doctrinal closure. The result is an open research architecture grounded in three questions: Does this protect, restore, or enlarge life? What evidence would change our minds? Can we remain more loyal to reality than to coherence?
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GenrePhilosophy
Length1 hr 9 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateAug 2, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction
2Listener’s Note
3AI Transparency Note
4Disclaimer
5How to Listen
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6Orientation for the Listener
71. Introduction: What Would It Mean to Complete L-V-O-A?
82. Intellectual Inheritance and Contribution Boundary
92.1 McMurtry’s constitutional achievement
102.2 The proposed reconstruction
112.3 Method and sources
123. Ontological Ground: Life as Organized Dependence
133.1 Living unity, structure, and medium
143.2 Objective need
153.3 From difference to significance, valence, and meaning
163.4 The remaining hard problem
174. The Fact–Value Bridge
184.1 Why life is not merely another preference
194.2 The operational corollary
204.3 Beyond survivalism and perfectionism
215. The Minimal Operational Grammar
226. The Dynamic Need–Satisfier–Capacity–Viability Model
236.1 The causal sequence
246.2 Why flow is the missing temporal grammar
256.3 Formal scaffold
266.4 Satisfier taxonomy
276.5 State, trajectory, phase, and action
287. A Life-Value Decision Procedure
297.1 Non-compensation and proportionality
307.2 Uncertainty and precaution
317.3 Participation as epistemic infrastructure
328. Life Capital, Civil Commons, and Institutional Realization
338.1 Life capital
348.2 Civil commons
358.3 Life sequence and money sequence
368.4 The Life-Knowledge Commons
379. Nested Scale, Time, and the Anti-Displacement Test
3810. Epistemology: How Living Worlds Answer Back
3910.1 Three mutually correcting standpoints
4010.2 From coherence to causal warrant
4110.3 Falsifiable middle-range hypotheses
4211. Domain Applications
4311.1 Health care and public health
4411.2 Education
4511.3 Economics
4611.4 Governance
4712. Risks, Objections, and Safeguards
4812.1 The naturalistic-fallacy objection
4912.2 Anthropocentrism and the standing of nonhuman life
5012.3 Aggregation and incommensurability
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